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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1904
Page
4
In a Star editorial style débacle a woman known as Spinater mocks Mr Little the Klondiker seeking a Seattle wife. Blanche Martin adds support for working girls urging editors to defend true self reliance and disdain for insincere suitors.
Walter Reed Memorial association seeks fifteen thousand dollars to honor Maj Walter Reed in Washington. The piece lauds his pioneering work against yellow fever, noting his risked life and leadership of the Cuba experiments that controlled the disease and saved the United States from vast losses.
The piece praises Anamosa prison in Iowa for its utilitarian approach turning inmates into productive workers. It notes inmates learn trades such as cooperage farming stonecutting and blacksmithing and may earn dollars daily after release. The author argues reform through hard work and self reliance is preferable to punishment.
Paris Gibson Jr and his wife Miss McKee eloped from Cascade county after an armed chase. Mrs Gibson, a noted racer, dominates Montana events winning a relay in Butte and a four day race in Helena. She claims she has not lost a race in six years.
A collage of snippets covers politics and culture with jokes about Senator Spooner rail bills and sleeper trains. Notes mention Von Plebve’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, a bar scene, and local gossip from Caribou Maine and Seattle. Peyton Raabe promotes a Boston traveling agency in town.
An advertisement touts FLESH FOOD as a universal preparation claimed to create good health and remove blemishes. It markets a beauty system by Charles Flesh Fool, offering a free book “Art of Massage” with orders and promising shipping to any address from New York.
A Civil War captain from Soldiers' Home, Cal, says he suffered thirty years with piles, bled and hurt, but used Pyramid Pile Cure and was cured. He gave the remedy to a friend whose twenty five year pile also vanished. The ad urges readers to buy the fifty cent package and request a free information booklet from Pyramid Drug Co.
Rudolf Pohl, a baker from South Tacoma, attempted to hang himself with suspenders in the city jail. After a second try with a blanket cord he was stopped by Sergeant Olson, later committed as insane and removed to the state hospital at Steilacoom.
A seven foot inmate tied a slip knot around his neck and hung suspended. He lifted his feet so strangulation seemed certain until fellow prisoners caused a disturbance that drew police attention and the intervention of Sergeant Oson.
Formal charges accuse Second Lieutenant Paul McDonald of the Tenth Infantry of duplicating salary vouchers and presenting them to pay debts. The case, for conduct unbecoming an officer, will bring a court martial at Vancouver barracks this week.
An ad touts Dr. Kings New Discovery for consumption and lung troubles claiming it cures bronchitis croup whooping cough grip pneumonia and consumption. A user Mrs C B Van Metre of Shepherdstown says a single bottle cured her bronchitis after a year of no relief. Trial bottles are free with regular sizes priced at ten cents and one dollar.
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